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Meat subsidies? There are programs to support smaller suppliers, increase competition. Not directly make beef cheaper. It's something like a billion a year? So
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
Meat subsidies? There are programs to support smaller suppliers, increase competition. Not directly make beef cheaper.
It's something like a billion a year? Sounds like a lot; your part was $2.50 in taxes. Not very significant in a trillion-dollar budget.
Removing these programs would probably have the opposite effect: letting competition languish would leave one or two large players, who could set the prices anywhere they liked. Probably not lower.
- soco 3y agoThe point of the comment wasn't the meat prices, but the preservation of the environment. Higher prices will mean less consumption which will mean less production so a environment win, and still room for a small but also expensive producer or two. Unless the duopoly will want higher production and decrease the prices so we will land in the same place, environment-wise. Or am I getting the subsidies point wrong?
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoI don't see how the money spent by the government to encourage competition (not strictly a 'subsidy' which means 'price support') has any effect on the environment.